Emile Verhaeren: Poems

Bilingual English / French edition

Dubbed the 'European Walt Whitman', Emile Verhaeren is a pro-European idealist, whose poetry explores his overriding notion of mankind advancing to a promised land where vital creative energies and new technology could combine to produce a more progressive human strain, a hope ignominiously swept away by the industrial brutality of the First World War. And yet, to return to the poetry of Verhaeren now is to reappraise a master poet who consistently exhibits a sublime visionary gift as well as his all too contemporary human vulnerability in some of the most tender and beautiful love poems ever written.

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'The Glorious Falsehood of Progress - An Essay about Emile Verhaeren's Poems
WHATEVER CENTURY and whatever supposedly timeless history man could imagine himself to be reborn in, the results, for Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916), would have been the same, i. ...more »